Clark Manufacturing Makes Blank CDs; It Is a Very Competitive

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Clark Manufacturing makes blank CDs; it is a very competitive market and the company follows a target pricing strategy. Currently the market price for a unit of product (one unit equals a package of 100 CDs) is $18.00. Clark's production costs are shown below:
Direct materials $5.00 per unit
Direct labor $2.90 per unit
Indirect production costs $6.42 per unit
Non-manufacturing costs $3.20 per unit
Clark uses activity-based costing for its indirect production costs and provides the following information about this particular product:
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The company's objective is to earn 5% profit on the sales price of the product. Clark carried out a value engineering study and decided that they could make the processing activity more efficient and save costs. If they reduce the total processing activity cost by $20,000, what will their profit percentage be? (Please round to the nearest tenth of a percent.)

• A) 4.3%
• B) 4.9%
• C) 5.9%
• D) 5.2%

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